Name Ballydorn

Built 1915 by The Dublin Dockyard Company for the Commissioners of Irish Lights, BALLYDORN is a lightship with a hull of riveted iron and steel plate. She has two steel masts used as steadying sails only. Most of her service life was at Blackwater Bank on the River Blackwater, Wexford. She was sold out of service to Hammond Lane Foundries, Dublin, in 1968 who sold her on to her present owners and she was towed to Strangford Loch in Northern Ireland. As headquarters for a cruising club her interior layout has changed considerably. During one stage in her career, she was renamed PETREL and acquired her present name at a later date. She is a ‘Seabird’ class lightship and is the only one in Northern Ireland.

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